Voulons-nous encore vivre ensemble ?

The Covid crisis has taught us that it can be suspended; but other alarm signals show us that it is in grave danger. On the one hand, there is a temptation to retreat, whether in loneliness, in selfishness or in the virtual world. On the other hand, there is the seduction of conflicts, which makes us read society as a vast field of battle. Class struggle, gender war, race struggle, conflict of generations or clash of civilizations, we have the embarrassment of choice! All come to shake up the evidence of common life, which was so clear for so long that when doubt arises, as today, we are very deprived: living together, agree, but how? and especially why? The project of this book is to answer this diabolically simple question — why do we want to live together? — so that we can see clearly at once what separates us and what unites us; in order above all to try to find meaning and sussa